president ronald reagan, our 40th president. the first president to be sworn in on the west front of the capitol. he was sworn in for a second term in 1985. herself a portion of that speech. >> when i took this oath four years ago i did in the economic stress. voices were saying that we need to look to our past. but we, the present day americans are not given to looking backward. in this blessed land there is always a better tomorrow. four years ago i spoke about a new beginning and we have accomplished that. in another sense, our new beginning is a continuation of that beginning created two centuries ago. when for the first time in history, government, people said, was not our master it is our servant. it is only power that, we the people, allow it to have. that system has never failed us. but for a time we failed the system. we ask things of government that the government was not equipped to give. we yielded to the national government. we allowed taxes and inflation to rob us of our earnings and savings and watched the great i